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UK
/ʃˈæmblɪŋ/
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NOUN
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walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
from his shambling I assumed he was very old
How To Use shambling In A Sentence
- Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
- I don't want to get into an argument over what technically counts as a zombie, but it's possible that Depp meant the return of the villains from the first film, over shambling hordes of peglegged foes. Hollywood.com - Recent News
- Attacked by a monstrous little creature called a "delver", Cara is rescued by a shambling, manlike beast called "the Dimblethum. SFFaudio
- Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
- The Dead, shambling close together in an unplanned and unorganized mob. ABHORSEN
- He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
- Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling. IN LOVE AND WAR
- In the large ensemble cast, he gives the standout performance as the endearingly needy, shambling Tommy, the most human figure in what often seems like a gallery of grotesques and cartoon caricatures.
- Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
- By the open window stood a man, open-faced and shambling. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY